Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even those Commonwealth members (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Southern Rhodesia) who had refused to recognize Red China, were watching Asia and Lake Success through Nehru's pink window. The proposals grew nearer and nearer to what the conferees thought China's Red Boss Mao Tse-tung wanted. In a flurry of cables and transatlantic telephone calls, St. Laurent and Nehru worked out a new cease-fire plan for Korea. They sent instructions to their delegates on U.N.'s Truce Committee, Canada's Lester Pearson and India's Sir Benegal Rau. Nehru himself...
...included Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg, Central Intelligence Agency Chief Walter Bedell Smith, Army Chief of Intelligence Alexander Boiling. Guesses flew thick & fast around the Dai Ichi building, ranging even to the surmise that Nationalist China's armies on Formosa might be brought to bear against Mao Tse-tung's hordes...
...Tito's theoreticians in Belgrade. The government-inspired Review of International Affairs argued that Korea has become an arena where Russia and China are competing for dominance of all Asia. Stalin was ahead until his North Korean puppets collapsed, and that, according to Tito's pundits, was Mao's cue to leap "into the forefront...
...American assets in China (estimated at more than $100 million worth of mission and business properties). Peking's propagandists hew to the hate-America, love-Russia line. A striking visual example was the recent Red China anniversary parade in Peking. Ranks of marchers bore aloft portraits of Mao (TIME, Nov. 6), and news pictures of the spectacle were apparently released for domestic propaganda. Other marchers carried images of Stalin. Pictures of these latter were sent to Moscow, and reached the West through Sovfoto, the Russian newspicture agency...
...Chinese Communists' march into Korea still seems more like a cooperation of partners than a falling-out of comrades. Any appeasement of Mao, in order to encourage his suspected break with Stalin, might be just what the Moscow-Peking partnership wants...